Steering Committee

The Opportunity Agenda Board members represent a diverse spectrum of disciplines, constituencies and approaches, yet all of them have demonstrated in their work a rare priority on cross-disciplinary collaboration, leadership development, a focus on results and a deep respect for diversity. In addition to diversity of experience, our Steering Committee and Advisory Board represents a diverse range in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, geography, and age. For a list of former advisory board members, please click here.

Timothy Wilkins, Chair of the Steering Committee

Timothy Wilkins is the Chair of the Steering Committee of The Opportunity Agenda. He is a partner in the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he focuses on international mergers and acquisitions.

Alan Jenkins is Executive Director of The Opportunity Agenda, a communications, research, and policy organization dedicated to building the national will to expand opportunity in America. Before joining The Opportunity Agenda, Alan was Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation, managing grantmaking in the United States and eleven overseas regions. His prior positions include Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the United States government in constitutional and other litigation before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Associate Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where he defended the rights of low-income communities facing exploitation and discrimination.

Michael Goldberg became a financial adviser after building a successful, 17-year career in the recorded music and entertainment industries, where he most recently worked as the Chief Financial Officer at Verve Music Group at the Universal Music Group.

Wayne M. Hewett is the President & CEO of Arysta Lifescience since January 2010. Prior to that, Wayne was the Vice President, Supply Chain and Operations for GE worldwide. In December 2006, Wayne was named President and CEO of Momentive Performance Materials Inc.

Joseph Lewis is a currently a Director at JCRA Financial, a global financial risk consulting firm. In his role he is providing risk management advice on interest rates, foreign exchange, and commodities to Fortune 500 companies, real estate and private equity funds. Most recently, he was a Director in Citi’s Risk Solutions Group responsible for Technology, Retail and Industrial derivative origination, structuring and execution. He held similar roles at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital.

David W. May is Corporate Chief Marketing Officer at AIG. He joined the company in 2013 and is responsible for global brand strategy, digital and social media, market research, advertising and sports sponsorships.

Sharon Pratt, J.D., former Mayor of Washington, D.C., is the founder and manager of Pratt Consulting, a company that brings strategic consulting support to government, commercial and non profit clients. Pratt Consulting, founded in 2002, serves companies, governments and nonprofits by guiding and assisting them with developing policies, programs and initiatives in the spheres of sustainable energy, financial management, Enterprise Resource Planning, housing, small business development and homeland security.

Amy made her directorial debut with The Guitar, starring Saffron Burrows. Amy has recently directed an episode of Law & Order: SVU. She also recently shot a short film called DeLiVeRy with Ethan Suplee and Lukas Haas. Upcoming projects include the features : Phoenix, The House that Jack Built, Claude and the Birthday Cake (which she is co-writing with Jude Falaise about growing up in Haiti in 1963) Songbird about the singer Eva Cassidy and the television series DICK. She is also co-creating the web-series The Royal Hotel with Deirdre Lewis, featuring various artists stepping out of their established Genre’s and mediums to create new work (produced by Tina Elmo and Sundance Productions)

Sara Stuart , Director of Development and Communication at Union Settlement Association

Sara Stuart is the Director of Development and Communication at Union Settlement Association, the oldest and largest social service provider in East Harlem. She has held similar positions at Citizens Union, a century old good government watchdog organization, and at Center for Community Alternatives, a leader in reducing reliance on incarceration.

As co-creator and former head writer of The Daily Show and Air America Radio co-founder, Lizz Winstead has helped to change the very landscape of how people get their news. But she wasn’t just behind the scenes: As a performer, Winstead brought her political wit to The Daily Show as a correspondent and later to the radio waves co-hosting Unfiltered, Air America Radio's mid-morning show, where she brought on board Hip Hop legend, Chuck D and political big brain Rachel Maddow.